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The island is a rectangle with roads around the edges, and two roads crossing in the middle. Together these define the city blocks. The perfect rectangle subdivided in four smaller ones makes Vlooienburg appear as the most strictly geometrically planned new neigbourhoods in Amsterdam. The crossing roads were named short and long wood street, after the wood trade that had inititally concentrated here.
Four bridges connected the island to the surrounding city. Near the bridge on the Leprozengracht (Leper's canal) the ferry service to Muiden had a stop.